![White car (Porsche Taycan) with the hood popped is inside the building with an american flag on the wall.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_square_large/public/2024-06/2024-P09317.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=m6sQhZRq)
Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) Artificial Intelligence (23)
- (-) Clean Water (3)
- (-) Cybersecurity (2)
- (-) Energy Storage (9)
- (-) Isotopes (11)
- (-) Materials (13)
- (-) Materials Science (17)
- (-) Microscopy (3)
- (-) Physics (6)
- (-) Security (2)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (12)
- Advanced Reactors (3)
- Big Data (10)
- Bioenergy (12)
- Biology (12)
- Biomedical (5)
- Biotechnology (5)
- Buildings (13)
- Chemical Sciences (12)
- Climate Change (19)
- Composites (5)
- Computer Science (24)
- Critical Materials (4)
- Decarbonization (20)
- Education (1)
- Emergency (1)
- Environment (22)
- Exascale Computing (6)
- Fossil Energy (2)
- Frontier (6)
- Fusion (7)
- Grid (6)
- High-Performance Computing (13)
- ITER (1)
- Machine Learning (8)
- Mathematics (2)
- Mercury (1)
- Microelectronics (1)
- Nanotechnology (2)
- National Security (14)
- Net Zero (5)
- Neutron Science (12)
- Nuclear Energy (11)
- Partnerships (11)
- Polymers (5)
- Quantum Computing (10)
- Quantum Science (12)
- Simulation (12)
- Space Exploration (5)
- Statistics (2)
- Summit (4)
- Sustainable Energy (16)
- Transportation (14)
Media Contacts
![Advanced materials take flight in the LEAP engine, featuring ceramic matrix composites developed over a quarter-century by GE with help from DOE and ORNL. Image credit: General Electric Advanced materials take flight in the LEAP engine, featuring ceramic matrix composites developed over a quarter-century by GE with help from DOE and ORNL. Image credit: General Electric](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/GE1main_0.jpg?itok=sqLo7TAa)
Ceramic matrix composite (CMC) materials are made of coated ceramic fibers surrounded by a ceramic matrix. They are tough, lightweight and capable of withstanding temperatures 300–400 degrees F hotter than metal alloys can endure. If certain components were made with CMCs instead o...
![By producing 50 grams of plutonium-238, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have demonstrated the nation’s ability to provide a valuable energy source for deep space missions. By producing 50 grams of plutonium-238, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have demonstrated the nation’s ability to provide a valuable energy source for deep space missions.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/front_page_slide_assets/2015-P07524.jpg?itok=MEy22Na3)
With the production of 50 grams of plutonium-238, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have restored a U.S. capability dormant for nearly 30 years and set the course to provide power for NASA and other missions.
![Processing plutonium-238 Processing plutonium-238](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Pu-238%20art.jpg?itok=3k_Y0YT_)
Since its 1977 launch, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled farther than any other piece of human technology. It is also the only human-made object to have entered interstellar space. More recently, the agency’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto on July 14, giving us our first close-up lo...